Highlights of the April-June programme at the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo include performances by Macnas and Rough Magic Theatre Company, concerts by Sharon Shannon and Sean Keane, and Handel's opera Rodelina performed by the Opera Theatre Company.
County Sligo Youth Theatre takes to the stage from April 14th to 17th with its own play, Broken Plastic Chairs, which examines the problems faced by a group of school students.
Rough Magic returns to the Hawk's Well after a four-year absence from April 20th to 24th with The Whisperers, described as "a play across the centuries".
Two hundred years after the first three acts of Frances Sheridan's 18th-century play A Trip To Bath were found, it has been completed by a modern writer, Elizabeth Kuti. The Whisperers is said to combine "18th-century wickedness and wit with a very modern attitude to the sexual power of money and the market value of sex".
Theatregoers should again be tempted to the venue from April 27th to May 1st for Pat McCabe's The Dead School, performed by Macnas and the Galway Arts Festival. McCabe, who lives in Sligo, has adapted his own novel and the central character, an old-style national schoolteacher, is played by Mick Lally.
Rodelinda is staged on May 7th, Sean Keane plays on May 14th and Sharon Shannon on June 10th. The Sligo Arts Festival opens on May 28th, and the Hawk's Well will also be staging a number of events. Full programme details from (071) 61518/61526.